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Genesis 27 Bible study: The stolen blessing
Rebekah and Jacob deceived blind Isaac, and Jacob took the blessing meant for Esau. Isaac trembled but said, "Yes, he will be blessed." Esau said Jacob was rightly named, for he had supplanted him twice; he wept, and planned to kill his brother, and Rebekah told Jacob to flee to Laban for what she called "a few days".
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“He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?””
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“Jacob told his father outright, ‘I am Esau your firstborn.’”
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What's really going on
Rebekah's plan
Isaac, old and unable to see, sends Esau to hunt and make "savory food, such as I love… that my soul may bless you before I die" (27:1-4). Rebekah overhears and tells Jacob, "obey my voice" (27:5-8). Jacob's worry is being found out: "What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself" (27:12). She answers, "Let your curse be on me, my son" (27:13), dresses him in Esau's clothes and puts goatskins on his hands and neck (27:15-16).
Where it leads to Jesus
Blessing by faith
Genesis 27:27leads toHebrews 12:2
Hebrews names this blessing: "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come" (Hebrews 11:20). It says all the people in that list "didn’t receive the promise" (Hebrews 11:39), and tells its readers to run "looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith" (Hebrews 12:2).
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The rest of Genesis 27 is waiting in Favor
- Jacob's voice, Esau's hands
- "Bless me, even me also"
- "A few days"
- Esau's yoke
- The deceiver deceived
- 15 questions as you read
- 5 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
בְּרָכָהberakhahsay be-ra-KHAH
"Blessing" (Brown-Driver-Briggs), also "prosperity" and "a gift, present". Its first appearance in the Bible is God's promise to Abram, "You will be a blessing" (12:2). This chapter uses it six times, among them Jacob's fear of "a curse… and not a blessing" (27:12) and Esau's "he has taken away my blessing" and "Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?" (27:36). In the next chapter, as he sends Jacob away, Isaac says, "May God Almighty bless you… and give you the blessing of Abraham" (28:3-4).
For your group
Genesis 27 Bible study questions
- 1God had said the elder would serve the younger (25:23), yet the blessing came to Jacob by deceit. Why do you think people reach for good things in wrong ways?
- 2Esau cried, "Bless me, even me also, my father." What do you make of his grief?
- 3Isaac loved Esau and Rebekah loved Jacob. How did that play out in this chapter, and what can we learn from it?
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